Pa. student left behind on Washington, D.C. field trip

HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Officials at Hollidaysburg Area Senior High School are trying to figure out how an 18-year-old student was left behind in Washington, D.C. after a field trip.

A school spokeswoman says the student was left at a mall where about 150 college-bound and honors civic students ate after sightseeing on Thursday.

The boy called home and his parents were able to contact teachers aboard a bus, which went back to pick up the boy about an hour later. Before the trip, parents were given phone numbers to reach the teachers in case of an emergency and school officials say the phone chain worked.

School officials are trying to determine how teachers missed the boy in a head count taken before the return trip.